Cortical GABAergic Interneurons in Cross-Modal Plasticity following Early Blindness
Figure 4
Visual properties of single neurons in auditory and somatosensory cortices of rewired hamsters. These cells that responded to visual stimuli showed orientation selectivity, motion and direction sensitivity with receptive field properties similar with those obtained from neurons in the visual cortex of normal hamsters. (a) Examples of visual responsive neurons in the somatosensory cortex of hamsters with new retinal projections in the somatosensory ventrobasal nucleus (VB) of the thalamus adapted from Metin and Frost [83]. (b) Receptive field properties of visual neurons found in the auditory cortex of hamsters with ectopic retinal terminals in the auditory medial geniculate nucleus (MG). Orientation (left panel) and direction (right panel) selectivity adapted from Frost and collaborators [103]. V, vertical orientation; Ob, oblique orientation; Or, orientation selective; H, horizontal orientation; D, direction selective; Uni-D, unidirectional; Bi-D, bidirectional; NS, non-selective neuron.
